My Commentary: I wrote about this worthless scumbag back in 2015. As a police commander in Chicago, he spent a decade running a racist torture ring. For his many egregious crime, he was allowed to quietly retire with a cozy pension…

(Heather Cherone) Thirteen city employees have been disciplined for their role in a scheme that blocked off a street near the United Center so their friends and relatives could park for free during Bulls and Blackhawks games, Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said.

Inspectors working for the city’s watchdog staked out 16 games at the United Center from April 2015 to February 2016 — including nine Blackhawks playoff games — and witnessed employees of the Office of Emergency Management allowing 62 cars to park for free on the west side of Wood Street between Madison Street and Warren Boulevard, Ferguson said in his quarterly report released Monday.

(Rebecca Mueller) If you are thinking of starting a small business in Chicago, you might want to have an attorney lined up to help push things through City Hall.

Last week, my mobile fashion boutique, North & Hudson, finally hit the streets after months of sitting on the sidelines waiting for approval from the city.

After leaving my career in finance and graduating from fashion school, I watched dozens of my classmates flee Chicago for places like New York or Los Angeles. But I was determined to stay here in Chicago and to support local fabric and manufacturing businesses with orders from my clothing line.

A now-former Chicago police officer will be rewarded with a $4000/month pension despite the fact that he was found responsible for the false imprisonment and torture of over 100 African American males.

Officer Jon Burge was a police commander for over a decade in Chicago.

During his time as a commander, he oversaw a literal torture ring for innocent black people that his officers scooped up from the streets and framed.

The torture used on these victims included electrical shocks, genital torture, suffocation, bludgeoning, and isolation to name but a few techniques.